Newcomer / Intro Wonderful. Now "wanted" because an idiot flew through my mining beam.

[Hythos]

Mining, minding my own business, and some idiot flew from beneath me into my mining-beam.
Naturally, the local security ships engaged, but I hit the gas and got outa there. I'm currently parked at a station, but can't seem to pay off any penalty, bounty, or "warning".

Will the 'wanted' warning wear off over time? Or what must I do to fix it?

 

[Jane Turner]

Bounties seem to be bugged at the moment. If you can't pay it off via the Pilot's federation on the contacts page and there is no sign of a fine on your transactions tab, try logging out of the game and reloading.

 

[Hythos]

Bounties seem to be bugged at the moment. If you can't pay it off via the Pilot's federation on the contacts page and there is no sign of a fine on your transactions tab, try logging out of the game and reloading.

I've been sitting at port for the past few minutes, and I don't see any indication I'm still wanted, but I'm trying just that to be safe
Thanks!

Ok; Well; Looks like it's cleared, but it may have drawn my fine out of the bounty-reward that was already owed to me; so, I don't know if it was time, or just having landed and waiting it out.

 

[the100thmonkey]

You need to learn fire control.

 

[Rude Tune]

Nothing like having some NPC masking your fire. It sucks. I turned off "Notify authorities of crimes against me" because they kept getting in the way. Especially if you are using beam or cannons.

 

[the100thmonkey]

It's called a joke.

 

[OamodSias]

This has nothing to do with fire control.

A good example:

[video]https://gfycat.com/GroundedFluffyBighorn[/video]

Duuuude, you could have TOTALLY avoided that!
L2P issue, most definitely.

 

[Kaare Willoch]

Oh no... The "L2P" kids are here :-(

 

[OamodSias]

I'm just going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you're making a joke because you got the joke from my own post.

 

[V3teran]

Best thing to do is go offline, go solo then get yourself to a starport, pay the fine and then get yourself back online.

 

[the100thmonkey]

This has nothing to do with fire control.

A good example:

[video]https://gfycat.com/GroundedFluffyBighorn[/video]

Source: Reddit

Now that I've got home and been able to watch that video, a couple of points:

1. It's a different situation - the OP was firing mining lasers and was presumably not moving in space relative to the asteroid field. Hence the joke about learning fire control - he wasn't even engaged in combat maneuvers.

2. The pilot in the short video should have been paying better attention to his scanner and the trails from the dumbfires - it's clear that the SA ship is approaching the player at pretty high speed. Fire control.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Mining, minding my own business, and some idiot flew from beneath me into my mining-beam.

The NPCs, they be a-trollin' you

 

[InMemoriamSirocco]

2. The pilot in the short video should have been paying better attention to his scanner and the trails from the dumbfires - it's clear that the SA ship is approaching the player at pretty high speed. Fire control.

I don't know about you, but when in combat, I tend to focus entirely on my target. And the reason I am not expecting other ships to fly through my beam of energy is that this is borderline suicidal stupid behavior, and I expect more from AI in 2015.

 

[the100thmonkey]

If you can't understand a joke, that's your problem.

FD are changing the mechanic behind what generates a response from the police because of the amount of whining from people who don't check their fire; I think it's working as originally intended. It's not my fault people don't look at their scanners.

 

[Boff'in]

It's on their todo list. I thought it was in for 1.07, maybe it going in the 1.1 release ?

 

[Brad Avidro]

You need to learn fire control.

Wait till it happens to you, if you do a lot of combat it will.
I'm very careful, but it can still happen.

 

[M0rdresh]

I somehow like that you have to watch you trigger finger while pirate hunting in a Resource Extraction Site, so as far as I'm concerned this can stay.
However getting a bounty because someone flew through your mining laser, either a terrible oversight or the devs got some good humor.

 

[MaccGyver]

I don't know about you, but when in combat, I tend to focus entirely on my target. And the reason I am not expecting other ships to fly through my beam of energy is that this is borderline suicidal stupid behavior, and I expect more from AI in 2015.

This is called "lack of situational awareness" and is a good way to end up dead from a collision or worse.

Regarding AI, it's nice to be able to blame something else for something you could be doing better, isn't it? Always makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

 

[Gully Foyle]

Exactly.

Yep, me too. Look at it this way: it does make the game harder. There's a fix in the wind methinks

Thumbs up RUDE for the Rush album in your sig.

 

[m0nk3n]

i thought you only mined at asteroids randomly in instance? not ships (abandoned ones)